arla
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse árla, from Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *airi. Related to English early.
Adverb edit
arla (not comparable)
- (archaic) early in the morning
- i arla morgonstund
- bright and early
- (literally, “in early morning-moment”)
- 1649, Jacobus Petri Chronander, Bele-Snack, Eller Een Ny Comœdia, page 25:
- Hon är tigh bättre än Guld och Pärla,
Sitt hws achtar hon ärla och särla.- She is better than Gold and Pearl,
She attends to her house early and late.
- She is better than Gold and Pearl,
- 1668, Georg Stiernhielm, Hercules line 1, in Musæ Suethizantes. Taken from Samlade skrifter av Georg Stiernhielm[1], 1973, J. Nordström and B. Olsson, Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet.
- HERCULES arla stod vpp, en Morgon, i första sin Vngdom
- Hercules arose early, one morning, at the beginning of his youth
- Antonym: särla
Derived terms edit
- arlaregn (“early morning rain”)
See also edit
References edit
- arla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- arla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- arla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)